Ofgem has proposed a £3.4bn funding package and fast tracked Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2), the offshore electricity interconnector cable between Scotland and England.
EGL2 is an “electricity superhighway” connecting Peterhead in Scotland with Drax in England with 525kV, 2GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable. Project promoters National Grid…
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England to Scotland subsea energy superhighway will be first to progress under Ofgem fast track process
Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) will be the first project to proceed under a new Ofgem fast track process and will receive a provisional £2bn funding package.
National Grid’s project will construct a subsea energy “superhighway”, in the form of a 2GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea transmission cable, from…
Contracts handed out for £2.5bn electricity ‘superhighway’ between Scotland and England
National Grid has handed out £1.8bn worth of contracts to build the Eastern Green Link 1 project which plans to connect England and Scotland with an electricity “superhighway”.
The Prysmian Group has been awarded a £750M contract to deliver the UK’s first 525kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) electricity transmission cable…